chemotherapy
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Unlike chemotherapy, which kills healthy and cancerous cells alike, these medicines essentially empower patients’ immune systems to correctly recognize and attack tumors.
From Salon • May 15, 2026
She announced in March 2024 that she had been diagnosed with cancer, without revealing which type, and said that she had begun chemotherapy.
From Barron's • May 14, 2026
Collins was being treated with a drug called Avastin to slow the tumour's growth, and had been travelling to Singapore for a targeted form of chemotherapy.
From BBC • May 13, 2026
And so, I’m on a chemotherapy that’s being delivered to the 97% of my tumors that are benign, and those don’t get hit nearly as hard as the 3% that are mutated.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026
And so the youngest of our family, with the blond hair and the hazel eyes, had the chemotherapy and the radiation.
From "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom
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iatr (healing); therap (medical treatment)
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